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Manned Mission to Mars supports Since the conclusion of the Apollo program, which successfully placed a man on the moon, there have been rumors of a manned mission to the Red Planet. Pres. Bush outlined a plan in 2004 to increase funding for NASA in order to establish a base on the Moon by 2018 and eventually a manned landing on Mars. |
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Iraq Troop Surge strongly supports The Iraq Troop Surge was announced by President George W. Bush on January 10, 2007 as a new strategy for securing regions of Iraq by increasing the number of American troops and using new tactics. |
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Militarization of Space strongly supports The Cold War triggered a race between U.S. and the USSR to militarize space and develop new space weaponry technologies. Since the end of the war, space weapons have been used in various ways to support military ground operations. |
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Energy Independence supports A popular campaign that promises to reduce oil imports for security purposes and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Legislation in 2005 and 2007 have attempted, although poorly, to address American dependency. |
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Agricultural Subsidies strongly against President Bush is opposed to large subsidies to growers and has threatened to veto the 2007 House Farm Bill. |
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Kyoto Protocol Ratification strongly against An amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which seeks to assign mandatory emission limitations for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the signatory nations. |
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Assault Weapons Ban against The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) provision was signed into law in 1994. The 10 year ban, expiring in 2004, is currently undergoing an inspection of effectiveness and a reinstitution bill in the House of Representatives. |
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Oil Drilling supports The proposed 2,000 acre Coastal Plains region of the ANWR in Alaska has created a divide between environmentalists, big oil, and political parties alike, sparking a discussion on where and how the US will get its oil, and at what cost. |
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Bush Tax Cuts strongly supports From 2001-2004, Congress approved legislation introduced by President Bush that would significantly reduce taxes in order to stimulate the economy. Pres. Bush has received criticism for pursuing a policy that largely benefits America's wealthiest citizens. |
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Legalized Abortion strongly against Abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death and has become highly politicized since U.S. Supreme Court intervention in 1973. |
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Stem Cell Research against Pres. Bush has made it clear he is against the harvesting or cloning of embryos solely for research, although he has allowed federal funding for research on existing lines discarded from fertility clinics. In addition, Pres. Bush supports research involving adult stem cells -- those that exist in the bodies of children and adults and do not require the destruction of life. |
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State Children's Health Insurance Program against Against expanding the program outlaid in the 1997 Act and wants to retrench some features. President Bush vetoed the expansion of the program in October 2007.However, President Bush offered a compromise to expand the program by 20%. He is not completely against expansion, just expansion to the extent required by the bill he vetoed. |
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Privatization of Social Security strongly supports Pres. Bush made partial privatization a key component of his effort to reform Social Security in early 2005, but failed largely because of the public fear that the entire program would be privatized. |
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Social Security Reform strongly supports All affluent countries are faced with aging populations and the retirement of the large postwar generation which will soon overwhelm public pension systems. President Bush made pension reform an issue in his 2004 reelection campaign. Social Security Reform was supposed to be the centerpiece of Bush's domestic policy in his second term. However, it failed in early 2005 amid disagreements about privatization of the program and other issues. |
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Citizenship for illegal immigrants supports President Bush pushed for a bipartisan bill that would reform the immigration system but could not garner enough support from Congressional Republicans for the bill to pass. According to a story published by the Washington Post, privately Pres. Bush would really like to make an opportunity for illegal immigrants to get full citizenship. |
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Border Fence Wants limited amnesty, guest worker programs, more green cards The border fence spans two issues: immigration and homeland security. First passed in 2006, the fence has been included in immigration legislation to control illegal immigration flow across the southern border. |
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Patriot Act strongly supports The USA Patriot Act, which extends the power of law enforcement agencies in pursuing suspected terrorists, has caused outrage for perceived violations of civil liberties. |
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No Child Left Behind Act strongly supports NCLB was an early term achievement during Pres. Bush's first term. It is his core policy towards reforming education in America. |
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Free Trade strongly supports Pres. Bush has been a proponent of free trade, promoting CAFTA, bilateral agreements and lobbying Congress for the extension of special negotiating powers for the executive branch for things like WTO trade rounds. |
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Business Regulation strongly against Compared to other countries, the United States has fewer regulations on businesses but the markets in which businesses operate are not completely unrestricted, contrary to popular belief. |
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The Separation of Church and State against Pres. Bush has made federal funds available for religious organization involved in community outreach and charity causes. |
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Guantanamo strongly supports A U.S. military detention and interrogation facility located in Cuba that holds suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives. It has received international attention for violating international law by engaging in torture and holding captives indefinitely without trial. |
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Same Sex Marriage strongly against Pres. Bush has frequently made it clear that he is a supporter of "family values" and as such he doesn't think marriage should be possible between the same sex. He has supported a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. |
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Marriage Tax against A provision in American tax code that levies higher taxes on couples with equal incomes than singles or couples with disparate incomes. Over half of couples actually benefit from this provision. The penalty was eliminated as a part of the 2001 tax cuts. |
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Economic Sanctions on Iran strongly supports With Iran's 2003 fruition of their purportedly legitimate nuclear ambition came an international cry for economic sanctions and dialogue with the deviant President Ahmadinejad. |
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Dialogue with Rogue World Leaders strongly against With the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba increasingly vocal about their opposition to the U.S., talk of a potential dialogue with such leaders is becoming a central political issue with international implications. |
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Military Draft strongly against The military draft, which makes military service mandatory, has been used several times in U.S. history before it was ended in 1973. Declining troop levels as a result of the Iraq war have made the draft a renewed possibility. |
